Rachel Maclean

With the snow tapering off, Calgary road crews have started to plow and lay down traction or anti-icing material on major routes like Glenmore Trail and Crowchild Trail. But while the work gets underway, some Calgarians have taken to the internet to vent about the icy roads.

Helicopters, drones and even a private investigator: Aynsley Foss has been pulling out all the stops to find Dixie after the dog was taken from her farm just north of Cochrane, Alta., in late November.

They’re known as old prairie sentinels, but grain elevators are having a moment right now at the National Film Board.

Many kids around the world have dreamed of one day becoming an astronaut, but it came true for Jenni Gibbons. It was announced this week that she will be a backup for the Artemis II mission.

Known for his sense of humour and knowledge of Inuvialuit language and culture, Roy Goose died late last week after a battle with cancer.

Food bank usage has more than doubled since Yellowknifers came back from the wildfire evacuation, according to the Salvation Army. It comes as a new report gave many of the territories a low grade in food security and poverty reduction.

Mayor Rebecca Alty spoke with The Trailbreaker about plans for a review on the city’s wildfire evacuation this summer.

Sunflowers are in bloom, and are having a great year thanks to the warm weather. We asked to see your tall, small and colourful ones — and boy, did you deliver.

It was the first show in over a year for Canadian rockers Men Without Hats, and for many Calgarians too. Take a look at how concert-goers slowly dipped their toes back into the live music waters.

It doesn’t get much more Albertan than this. Find out what keeps the Thomson family doing this yearly tradition after decades.

CBC Calgary and CBC Edmonton have racked up 12 Radio Television Digital News Association of Canada awards for the Prairie region for work on stories ranging from the devastation left by the deaths of several men by suicide in Medicine Hat, to making sense of the COVID pandemic through graphs and charts, to a forum on systemic racism, the quest for accountability after a child died in care, the secret lives of ghost towns and much more.

Calgarians sure love their dogs, and that’s leading to a growing market for pretty much every service under the summer sun.